Results 1,201-1,220 of 4,407 for speaker:Claire Kerrane

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (28 Sep 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 276. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are plans to require mortgage providers to display their approval from the Central Bank; if additional protection will be provided to consumers when undertaking a mortgage in order to ensure they are engaging with accredited mortgage providers including those based overseas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45988/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (28 Sep 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 291. To ask the Minister for Finance the processes that are in place to enable businesses in Ireland to use online banks which are based overseas with ease; if there are mechanisms in place to remove barriers to businesses banking with online banking systems outside Ireland and to ensure governance in this area remains transparent and customer friendly; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Funding (28 Sep 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 293. To ask the Minister for Finance if an event (details supplied) received public funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46652/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (28 Sep 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 491. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to extending the total contributions approach for calculating the State pension (contributory) to those who have not accumulated 520 PRSI contributions (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45942/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (28 Sep 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 492. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the consideration that has been given to extending the purchasing of voluntary contributions to those who are no longer in the workforce to ensure that persons can reach the required number of PRSI contributions to qualify for the State pension (contributory); if she will advise any review of the process behind voluntary...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (28 Sep 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 497. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there has been a review of the method of calculating PRSI contributions for the State pension (contributory) particularly with regard to averaging over years of work in which an individual may have had several years of varying classes of PRSI contributions which then results in a lower yearly average and lower rate of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (28 Sep 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 516. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons transitioning from illness benefit to partial capacity benefit will continue to be eligible for the fuel allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46579/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (28 Sep 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 592. To ask the Minister for Health the processes in place to ensure that parents of children born via assisted human reproduction such as IVF and surrogacy are able to secure legal guardianship of these children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46615/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (28 Sep 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 701. To ask the Minister for Health the strategy in place to enable occupational therapists across all clinical areas to pursue upgrades (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46234/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (28 Sep 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 777. To ask the Minister for Health when legislation and availability of supports regarding assisted human reproduction such as IVF and surrogacy will be made available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46575/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (29 Sep 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 69. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will advise on requirements for commercial waste companies to offer compost bins to customers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47051/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Centres (29 Sep 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 70. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there has been a review of the use of data centres particularly with regard to the protection of electricity supplies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47053/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (29 Sep 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 96. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are plans to require local housing authorities to update social housing heating systems from solid fuel heating to oil heating; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47050/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Sep 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 151. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to providing pro-rata rates of disability allowance in recognition of the low thresholds involved in the means testing of this payment and with regard to the cost of disability regardless of household income; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46965/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (29 Sep 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 154. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 121 of 22 September 2021, if she will provide the number of recipients of parent’s benefit and leave per month since January 2021, in tabular form. [47041/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (30 Sep 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 185. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will re-examine the amount available to applicants under the housing adaption grants given the increase in building materials in order that the amounts awarded better reflect the costs of such works for older people and persons with a disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47287/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (30 Sep 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 186. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a person cannot receive funding under the housing adaption grant twice in a four year period; if there is a four-year rule in which a person has to wait to apply for the grant for a second time as detailed in correspondence from a local authority (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47288/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (30 Sep 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 193. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has plans to introduce greater incentives for persons who buy a vacant or dilapidated property and seek to renovate it into a family home; the current financial supports that already exist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47350/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Sep 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 271. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to extending the working family payment to the self-employed; if any costings have been carried out to examine the matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47232/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (30 Sep 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 274. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons referred to Tús by county in 2018, 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [47297/21]